Thanks for all the tips, I had an internet outage today, but I'll follow 
up on these ideas.

Tim, sometimes I have tabs between the data and sometimes, white spaces, 
it changes.

Bastiaan wrote:
> also you can use the . (dot) the repeat the action I guess
> 
> but I would do it like this:
> Select the table shift-v9 asuming you have 10 rows
> Then hit :
> and type s:\s\s:  \&  :g
> done
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jason Axelson schreef:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Joe<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Ideally I'd like to turn:
>>>
>>> a  b  c  d
>>>
>>> (into)
>>>
>>> a       &       b       &       c       &       d
>> This sounds like a good job for macros. So something like this (with
>> cursor starting on the a and assuming the columns are identical):
>>
>> qqa       &       wa       &       wa       &       0j
>> The above would record the macro, and then to play it use:
>> @q
>> Which could optionally by lead by a count to do it count many times
>>
>> :help q
>> :help CTRL-V
>>
>> Jason
> > 
> 


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